On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:41:24 GMT, "Cereus-validus"
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I posted a picture on rec.binaries.pictures.gardens of a flower
(header: mystery flower) that I bought at a green market in NYC.
8-10" slender-stemmed, orange and red petals, ball-like flower head,
narrow leaves, prolific in full sun. Can I collect seeds from it?

Can you get viable seed from cut flowers? NO.

Why not? If an already-polinated flower survives in water and forms a
seedhead, why would those seeds be inferior to any other?